5 Amendments of Alfred SANT related to 2015/2115(INI)
Amendment 17 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C a (new)
Recital C a (new)
Ca. whereas core inflation rates, that is exclusive of energy, have at best only marginally improved as a result of the quantitative easing programme that the ECB has rightly launched this year, an outcome which gives rise to concern, especially since there has been a deterioration in the performance of the Chinese economy and of emerging markets, which threatens to further compound deflationary forces;
Amendment 31 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E a (new)
Recital E a (new)
Ea. whereas, despite the overall improvement in aggregate towards a broadly neutral fiscal stance, the crisis regarding the third bailout for Greece agreed on the 12th of July 2015, again underlined that the problems arising from divergences in economic and social performance achieved in different parts of the Union, are not being well managed, and this with particular reference to the Eurozone, but also to the Union as a whole;
Amendment 64 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Deplores the existing gap between financing rates granted to SMEs and those granted to bigger companies; considers that this long-standing problem is not appropriately addressed by the recent measures implemented by the ECB to boost bank lending; recommends to carry out studies establishing whether the enhanced regulatory practices rightly introduced as part of the banking union process, have negatively affected the access of SMEs to banking finance so that if necessary, corrective action may be taken;
Amendment 145 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Stresses that the high and divergent levels of public and private indebtedness in some Member States are obstacles to the correct transmission of monetary policy, and that the non-conventional monetary policy implemented by the ECB is not able to change this situation; believes that a sustainable, political solution is still needed to ensure both the stability of state financing and addressing the millstone of high debt levels. Eurobonds could provide a remedy for this in certain circumstances.
Amendment 186 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 a (new)
Paragraph 16 a (new)
16a. Notes that the ECB in its statements remains publicly insistent on the need for Eurozone countries to maintain a steady pace in the introduction of structural reforms; Calls on the ECB to evaluate and take into account when it makes its recommendations, the critique that independent economic and financial experts have been making of European structural reform programmes, namely that they have been simultaneously launched over too wide a policy spectrum, which has made them frequently counterproductive and prone to create logjams for each other, as well as that structural reforms should have been organised on a limited basis, prioritised according to what would have produced the quickest and deepest impact, and then sequenced on a stage by stage basis.